One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.